Practising at DhammagiriCan make a lay person wearyBut the sapaya there(Benefits rich and rare) Make any effort easy to bear.

Anabhijjhā

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

A poster will propose a Buddhist Pali term as a challenge, and the next poster will write a limerick about that term, then suggest another term.

Obviously, no limerick is going to be the only possible limerick to illustrate a certain Pali word, so the words can be repeated. If someone wrote a limerick earlier about samvega, for example, it can still be suggested again as a challenge. There are no limits.

An important point: Please, please remember that METER is crucial. Here is the correct meter for limericks:

If you deviate from that, you'll be forced to read the unabridged works of Julia A. Moore.

We grasp pleasure riches food youth We flee from old age sickness deathHow to find happiness?How to find ease and peace?Anicca-saññā - know all things cease!

desanā ~ exposition of the Doctrine

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

Generous actions good and kindresulting from a wholesome mind accumulates punnaleads to sweet vipakaAs drips of water slowly fill pots.

sikkhā

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

Jechbi said: A poster will propose a Buddhist Pali term as a challenge, and the next poster will write a limerick about that term, then suggest another term.

Obviously, no limerick is going to be the only possible limerick to illustrate a certain Pali word, so the words can be repeated. If someone wrote a limerick earlier about samvega, for example, it can still be suggested again as a challenge. There are no limits.

An important point: Please, please remember that METER is crucial. Here is the correct meter for limericks:

And - Just a reminder of the Meter, and method for the Pali Limericks. 8 syllables for each of the first two lines, 6 syllables for each of the next two lines, and 9 syllables for the last line. The Limerick to point to the meaning of the Pali word given by the previous poster.

mettaChris

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

Well, the really funny thing is - particularly funny, because I am not sure if Catmoon knew it or not - is that the word "aham", which could easily become " 'ham" (samdhi before "I") in Pali or Sanskrit!!

So, yes, "I 'ham" is perfectly good atta-ditthi!

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My recently moved Blog, containing some of my writings on the Buddha Dhamma, as well as a number of translations from classical Buddhist texts and modern authors, liturgy, etc.: Huifeng's Prajnacara Blog.